48 Hours (Almost) Without the Internet
My fellow editors have graciously been spelling me for the past two days while I put the final push on a long-overdue piece for City Journal about earthquakes. With only a few momentary lapses of will, I actually managed to turn off the Internet for nearly 48 hours.
I rushed back to Ricochet this morning to see the chorus of speculation and concern--Where's Claire?--but was dismayed to discover that no one noticed I was gone. I may have to revise that neo-Copernican theory of the solar system I was working on, the one that had me at the center of it.
I'm trying now to catch up on the news. Something about a wedding, apparently? It looks very lovely.
On a serious note, I'm heartbroken to see that while I was focusing on one kind of natural disaster, Americans were experiencing another kind. We must have Ricochet members who have been personally affected. I wonder if there's anything we can do to help them?
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Jul '10
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On earthquakes.
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He's partially right. He wrote that in 2001. Since then, deaths have risen more than sixfold. The cause is not globalization, but urbanization. Obviously, I could make this point at much greater length, but let's talk about something, anything else--enough earthquakes for me for now.
Kate really seems like a pleasant young woman, doesn't she?
Jul '10
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Is She American? If not, then She must have the nicest teeth of any Brit.
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I pretty much only became aware of her existence this morning--somehow owing to the selectivity of my news aggregation methods, I managed to be unaware (truly) that this was happening yesterday. But now that I've caught up, I think she's lovely and they're sweet. It all seemed uncommonly wholesome for a mass-media spectacle.
Jul '10
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No Drudge Report?
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Jimmy Carter
No Drudge Report? · Apr 30 at 4:54am
Interestingly, not really. I hadn't realized it, but I've been checking Drudge a lot less lately. Has anyone else found that? Has he jumped the shark?
May '10
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No, I don't think he has. But what has happened is that where Drudge used to be a lonely outpost in a liberal media world and now things are a bit more crowded. He made his mark during the Clinton years helping reporters break news that their editors had spiked. Now, they're working for Fox News.
Aug '10
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Obama did a drive by, but none of the FEMA offices appear to have pulled things together. With power out across Alabama, water plants should be down, boil orders in place, and truckloads of bottled water headed into the state. I do a lot of this relief work and no one has heard a peep from FEMA yet. The Mississippi is starting to flood from St Louis to New Orleans as well. The 2011 hurricane season starts in less five weeks. Uh oh. Overall organization appears to have weakened, decisions are reversed frequently, authority is hard to pin down. Who is in charge and has the mission changed ?
Aug '10
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Utterly unrelated to earthquakes, even though it was in Turkey, I saw yesterday on zaman.com.tr a story with this picture above it. Hmm...ucube...where had I heard that word before?
I usually pass through Tuscaloosa on my drives between Texas and South Carolina. Here is what I fear will be "done to help": billboards put up by lawyers who will either sue insurers or accelerate government paperwork. Saw a fair bit of that in southeast Texas after Hurricane Ike.
Nov '10
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Claire: In 5 days and 16 hours the first practice session of the Turkish Grand Prix will begin. Will you be taking photographs and getting autographs? Specifically I need autographs from Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. Don't let me down...
Sep '10
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I'm not trying to brag (well, yes I am, but don't say anything) but I noticed your absence and assumed it was some deadline, though I didn't guess City Journal. I am having trouble keeping up with all the natural disasters, news from Anatolia, and the continued Mid East Machiavellian Maneuvering (I'm filing a trademark on that last one).
Mar '11
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.:
I rushed back to Ricochet this morning to see the chorus of speculation and concern--Where's Claire?--but was dismayed to discover that no one noticed I was gone.
Haha, yes, actually I did notice you were uncharacteristically quiet during the Royal Wedding brouhaha. But I assumed there was some perfectly reasonable fully-clothed reason, as indeed there was.
Jun '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Jimmy Carter
No Drudge Report? · Apr 30 at 4:54am
Interestingly, not really. I hadn't realized it, but I've been checking Drudge a lot less lately. Has anyone else found that? Has he jumped the shark? · Apr 30 at 5:14am
He seems to be getting more hysterical than he usually is. It's been getting on my nerves. So yes, you're not alone. In fact, I'm pleased that someone else noticed it, because I was questioning whether I was just imagining it or if, in fact, shark jumping had commenced.
May '10
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I was Tweeting like mad! About doggies in bicycle baskets, and telling the tornados to get off my lawn else I'd come over there. Did anyone care? No they did not.
We got hit by three waves of them, in one day.
Mainly concerned about the power outage that forces me to just start over again and not even bother catching up. Starting here.
Aug '10
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Team Rubicon?
Aug '10
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Awww, poor guy. I would have cared if I had known. Does that help?
Probably not. But seriously, I hope you and yours are OK. We all do.
Aug '10
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What is with Drudge ? (1) Not nearly as fresh as it used to be, like two day old bread.
(2) Ok with the unsourced stuff, but when sources start to appear, use them !
(3) Some of the dog swallows bird, flies away stuff looks like a hitcounter alogrithm is building the site. How many people read Google news after the first week ?
I imagine that alot of Richochetti read Drudge back when he broke Lewinsky and he went from zero to light speed and now that he is doing 25 million hits a day, he has found a happy medium of buzz and big tent that keeps the big bucks rolling in.
Maybe the concept was groundbreaker and now we're blase about it with twitter and facebook doing the immediacy dance.
Don't see anything that comprehensive showing up yet. Everybody else is using bylines and Matt won't buy the family pack (or the 22 piece bucket of blather) at the NYT.